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Goethe-Museum im Schloss Jägerhof

Since 1987, Schloss Jägerhof in Düsseldorf has housed the Goethe Museum, one of the three important Goethe archive and research sites. The institution consists of the museum itself, the manuscript archive, the research library, the art collection and an event center. The holdings of about 50,000 objects come from what was once the largest private collection on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) and his time, built up by the publisher Anton Kippenberg (1874-1950), and include manuscripts, books, arts and crafts, and a research library.

The museum and archive have the goal of historically researching the work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and documenting his reception up to the present day. In doing so, the institutions see themselves as a modern center of scholarship and communication, concentrating the tasks of collecting, researching and communicating with a view to the present. Their goal is not the mere celebration of a plaster bust, but a lively critical approach to the multi-layered work of this universal genius.

One of the outstanding attractions of the Goethe Museum is the Faust Laboratory, which deals with Goethe's insatiable spirit of research. Here, in particular, his preoccupation with anatomy and morphology as well as the creation of an artificial human being in the second part of "Faust" are brought into focus and intensively examined.

Address / entrance

Goethe-Museum Düsseldorf / Anton-und-Katharina-Kippenberg-Stiftung
Jacobistr. 2
40211 Düsseldorf

https://www.goethe-museum.de/de

Opening hours :

Museum
Tuesday to Friday and Sunday: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday: 1 p. m. - 5 p. m.
on holidays: a.m. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Library and study hall
by appointment

Different opening hours
January 1: closed
Mardi Gras: open
Carnival Sunday: closed
Shrove Monday: closed
Easter Sunday: open
Easter Monday: closed
May 1st: closed
Whit Monday: closed
24 - 25 December: closed, 26 December: open
December 31: closed

Prices / admission :

regular: 4,00 €
reduced: 2,00 €
from 4 p.m. Happy Hour: free admission
Free admission on Sundays

Schloss Jägerhof :

Schloss Jägerhof in Düsseldorf is the perfect choice to house the Anton and Katharina Kippenberg Foundation, as it is located in the center of the city on the eastern edge of the Hofgarten. The building was constructed in 1748 according to the plans of Johann Josef Couven, a master builder from Aachen, and probably his architect Nicolas de Pigage, and was completed in 1772, a year before Goethe's birth. Although Goethe does not explicitly mention the palace, he probably saw it in 1774 during his first visit to Düsseldorf, when he visited the Jacobi family at their country estate in Pempelfort, which was separated from the palace only by a garden area. In 1792, during his return from the First Coalition War against the army of the French Revolution, Goethe stayed in Pempelfort for four weeks and praised the "neighborhood of extensive well-kept gardens," without specifically mentioning the palace. In 1796, the "Jägerhof" was plundered by the revolutionary troops and eventually became completely uninhabitable. It was not until 1811 that it was restored according to plans and under the supervision of Adolf von Vagedes, on the occasion of Napoleon's visit to Düsseldorf.